Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj -est] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 2 | Some thought Meredith Jones a rough , bullying master , picking out the brightest boys to train them up for the scholarship class and by their results inflate his own ego . |
| 3 | The identification of the farm worker with his fellow villagers was reinforced by this , and even local farmers , who also had an interest in securing skilled labour and ensuring that the farm ran as smoothly as possible , contributed to the process by seeking out the best workers according to their reputation in the locality . |
| 4 | Less objective devices are provided by such methods as generalised contours which are attempts to reconstruct the original contours by linking up the furthest points reached by each contour from the area of highest ground . |
| 5 | My school grades would plummet , I 'd become virtually anorexic and I 'd take up the oddest hobbies to please my loved one . |